Sport fishing license sales revenue is deposited into the Fish and Game Preservation Fund (FGPF) and Hatchery and Inland Fisheries Fund. Per Fish and Game Code, the various validations and report cards are often deposited into subaccounts within the FGPF for specific purposes. The FGPF was established in 1909 as a repository for all funds collected under the Fish and Game Code and any other law relating to the protection and preservation of birds, mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibia in California. These revenues are generated from the sale of licenses for recreational and commercial fishing, hunting, and numerous special permits. The Hatchery and Inland Fisheries Fund was created to deposit 33.33 percent of the fees collected from the sale of sport fishing licenses. This fund is used to support programs related to the management, maintenance, and capital improvement of California's fish hatcheries, the Heritage and Wild Trout Program, and enforcement activities related thereto. Some of the main functions supported by the FGPF are: 

• Fisheries management: Development and implementation of policies to address management, protection, and restoration of fish species and their habitats. Also promotes commercial and public recreational angling opportunities. 
• Law enforcement: Support for more than 500 wildlife officers positioned throughout the State to promote compliance with laws and regulations protecting fish and wildlife resources. Wildlife officers also investigate habitat destruction, pollution incidents and illegal commercialization of wildlife, and serve the public through general law enforcement, mutual aid and homeland security. 
• Lands management: Management of department-owned lands including wildlife areas, ecological reserves, and public access areas to contribute to the conservation, protection, and management of fish and wildlife. 
• Wildlife conservation: Activities conducted by regional and field staff related to resource assessment and monitoring, conservation, and management activities for game species. 

Over time, the Legislature has created various subaccounts within the FGPF, which have specified report card/validations/permit fees generating revenue for projects benefitting those species. For example, the steelhead trout report card fee is used only to monitor, restore, or enhance steelhead trout resources, and administer the fishing report-restoration card program. Another example is the ocean enhancement validation, which funds the California Ocean Resources Enhancement and Hatchery Program. The purpose of the program is to advance research on the artificial propagation, rearing, stocking, and distribution of marine fish species that are important to sport and commercial fishing in the ocean waters off the coast of California south of a line extending due west from Point Arguello, including research on the efficacy of artificial enhancement of stocks of these marine fish species through hatchery production.